Need Some Encouragement to Buy God’s Indwelling Presence?

If you’re looking for encouragement to buy God’s Indwelling Presence, you can find some here. Thanks to Clint Armani and Jeff Humphries for alerting me to the discussion, and thanks to the commenters on the thread for their kind words! Buy it on Logos. Buy it on Amazon.

Peter Gentry on Daniel’s Seventy Weeks

The next issue of The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 14.1 (2010) is soon to be released. The issue is on eschatology, and you can see the Table of Contents here. SBJT has generously made available what looks to be the most important essay in this issue: Peter J. Gentry, “Daniel’s Seventy Weeks and the …

The Writings of Cornelis Bennema

Cornelis Bennema teaches at the South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies. His new book from Paternoster is entitled, Encountering Jesus: Character Studies in the Gospel of John. Here are some blurbs on Encountering Jesus: ‘This is a book I have been waiting for – a comprehensive, sophisticated analysis of the characters in the Gospel …

Still Sola Scriptura, My Essay from The Sacred Text

Thanks to Gorgias Press and to the editors of The Sacred Text, the Michaels Bird and Pahl, for permission to post my essay from the volume here: “Still Sola Scriptura: An Evangelical View of Scripture,” pages 215–40 in The Sacred Text: Excavating the Texts, Exploring the Interpretations, and Engaging the Theologies of the Christian Scriptures, …

Check Out the New ESV Online

As book technology charges forward (check out this fascinating comparison of the Kindle and the iPad by Tim Challies), the folks at Crossway are setting the pace among evangelicals, not least through the ESV Digital Initiative. They’ve developed a fabulous ESV Online site (more about it here), and for a limited time everyone who signs …

Sermons on Titus

The past four weeks at Kenwood we were in Paul’s letter to Titus. Here are the sermons: April 18, 2010, Titus 1:1-4 Truth Produces Godliness April 25, 2010, Titus 1:5-16 Elders in Response to False Teachers May 2, 2010, Titus 2:1-15 Behavior that Commends the Gospel May 9, Titus 3:1-15 Behavior Based on the Gospel …

Crazy Love for Radicals?

Some think we should sell everything and give it all away, or that we should be constantly rearranging the furniture of our lives. It’s almost as though they think not having an experience like Abram’s–where God calls you to leave everything and go to the land he will show you–is a lack of integrity or …

God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment Available for Pre-Order at Amazon

It looks like persecution for the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus may be on its way to us, so why don’t we use the calm before the storm to study up to stand firm in the hour of testing? God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment: A Biblical Theology is available for pre-order …

Chris Castaldo’s Holy Ground

There are loads of Roman Catholics here in Louisville. Our neighbors on both sides of us are Roman Catholic, so I’m thrilled to see the publication of Chris Castaldo’s Holy Ground: Walking with Jesus as a Former Roman Catholic. I would commend this book to anyone interested in seeing the gospel believed by Roman Catholics. …

Parry and Gentry Review Fernández Marcos

Jason T. Parry and Peter J. Gentry teamed up to review Natalio Fernández Marcos, Septuaginta: La Biblia griega de judíos y cristianos (Biblioteca de Estudios Bíblicos Minor 12; Salamanca: Ediciones Sígueme; 2008). 157 pp. Softcover. EURO 15. ISBN: 9788430116898. The review provides a nice overview of key points in the discussion of the Greek translation of …

The Beast and the False Prophet

I hadn’t seen this video on the prosperity gospel before I preached Revelation 13:11-18, but it is relevant. Here are my last two sermons on Revelation: Revelation 13:1-10 keeps us from being deceived by Satan so that we can persevere to the end in the true faith. and Revelation 13:11-18 gives us wisdom to distinguish …

Revelation 9-12, Four Recent Sermons

It has been my privilege to be preaching through the book of Revelation, and here are my four most recent sermons at Kenwood Baptist Church: 10-11-2009 – Revelation 12:1-17 The Seed of the Woman Versus the Seed of the Serpent 09-20-2009 – Revelation 11:1-19 Bearing Witness til Kingdom Come 09-13-2009 – Revelation 10:1-11 Eat This …

Did You See What He’s Doing in Revelation 13:14?

Sorry to keep piling on here, but I’m studying to preach Revelation 12 this Sunday and keep seeing things worth noting. The claim has been made that the sense in which Satan is bound during the millennium is that he cannot deceive the nations. If that’s the case, I submit that Revelation 12 and 13 …